[plug] adduser for email only

[Leon Brooks]

"Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Daniel Pearson wrote:
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> > I'm wanting to add a user, but so that he can only use the l/p for e-mail. I
> 
> > don't want this person to be able to telnet in, ftp in, or have any
> 
> > webspace. How would I go about it?
> 
> 
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> adduser -s /bin/false freddofrog
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> Where freddofrog is the name of the account.
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> 
> 
> Then if the user can't login via most utils BUT pop3/imap will work
> 
I make a directory /home/_common_ or something like that, owned by root 
and with no write permissions, a .bashrc saying "logout" and add...

?? -d /home/_common_

...to the adduser command. So, even if they somehow manage to replace 
/bin/false with a real shell, they still can't do much.

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